For 21st time: Oenoke Ridge hit-and-run case continued

Kate Regan, left, leaves the Norwalk Courthouse on Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2010, with her attorney, John Robert Gulash, and her husband, Mike, in the back. (Kristen Vitti photo)

Kate Regan of New Canaan, who is charged with negligent homicide, had her case continued again Tuesday morning, Feb. 5, in Norwalk Superior Court.

This was her 21st scheduled appearance in court since Regan was charged with negligent homicide and evading responsibility in the August 2010 death of New Canaanite Krishna Jayaraman on Oenoke Ridge.

Regan was seen leaving the courthouse shortly after 10 a.m., when she was scheduled to appear, on Tuesday.

“She was present but excused in the light of the fact of a new date and that further discussions were appropriate,” John R. Gulash, her attorney, told the Advertiser at the courthouse on Tuesday. Her new court date is Tuesday, March 12.

According to the docket, Tuesday, Feb. 5, was her 21st scheduled court appearance.

Regan has been out on a $10,000 bond since November 2010. She is also facing a $2.5 million lawsuit from Jayaraman’s son.

The hit-and-run

According to police, Regan, who was 32 and pregnant at the time of her arrest, allegedly drove off after hitting Jayaraman while he was at his mailbox at the end of his driveway.

She allegedly stopped at a gas station between 4:30 and 5 p.m. that day, shortly after the accident, to get her passenger side mirror fixed. When the man at the station told her it could not happen that day, according to court documents, she left.

Regan has said that she did not know she hit Jayaraman and instead thought she hit a mailbox, according to police records. She said she had been changing a DVD in the vehicle and veered onto the side of the road.

Jayaraman, who was 82, was found lying in his driveway after the accident, “unresponsive,” but with “a pulse and agonal breathing,” according to reports. He was bleeding “heavily” from a wound to his head and had injuries to his left foot and left elbow area, according to police. He was pronounced dead at 6:15 p.m. that day at Norwalk Hospital from multiple blunt trauma injuries.